emergency room

English

Noun

emergency room (plural emergency rooms)

1. (US, Canada, healthcare) A department of a hospital where seriously ill or injured patients, often with life-threatening conditions that require urgent or immediate treatment, are brought in, usually by ambulance.

Synonyms

• emergency department
• accident and emergency (A&E)
• casualty (UK)
• emergency ward (EW)
• emerg
• ER (abbreviation)

Translations

hospital department

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 急症室 (gap¹ zing³ sat¹)

  Mandarin: 急診室／急诊室 (zh) (jízhěnshì), 急诊室 (zh) (jízhěnshì)

• Danish: skadestue (da) c, akutmodtagelse c
• Dutch: spoedeisende hulp
• Faroese: skaðastova f
• Finnish: ensiapupoliklinikka, päivystysosasto, päivystyspoliklinikka (fi)
• French: salle d’urgences f, salle des urgences f
• German: Notaufnahme (de) f, Sanitätsraum m
• Hungarian: sürgősségi osztály, baleseti ambulancia, baleseti osztály, sürgősségi betegellátó osztály
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• Indonesian: instalasi gawat darurat
• Irish: Timpistí agus Éigeandáil f pl
• Italian: pronto soccorso (it)
• Navajo: ąąh áʼálʼį́ bił hazʼą́, nitsohodínídéelgo ąąh áʼálʼį́, nitsohodínídéelgo bił hazʼáníjí
• Norwegian: legevakt (no) c
• Portuguese: pronto-socorro
• Romanian: sală de urgență f
• Russian: отделе́ние э́кстренной медици́нской по́мощи n (otdelénije ékstrennoj medicínskoj pómošči), (colloquial) неотло́жка (ru) f (neotlóžka)
• Spanish: sala de emergencias f
• Swedish: akutmottagning (sv) c
• Welsh: ward ddamweiniau f